1) Copycat Entities
BSV entities that have multiple elements that are similar or identical to a pre-existing entity, including business concepts and branding. The use of similar branding is highly likely to cause confusion with the previous entity.
1.1) Administrative Association
The BSV "Bitcoin Association" is registered in the company register as "Bitcoin Association for BSV", but then publicly brands itself as the "Bitcoin Association".
| Bitcoin (BTC) Original | BSV Knockoff | |
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| Name | Bitcoin Association Switzerland | Bitcoin Association |
| Branding |  |
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| Location | Zug, Switzerland | Zug, Switzerland |
| Website | bitcoinassociation.ch | bitcoinassociation.net |
| @bitcoin_ch | @BitcoinAssn | |
| Archive (2021-07-18) | https://archive.is/fAmbk | https://archive.is/DJOH0 |
| Established | 2013 | 2020 |
| Evidence of creation date | https://archive.is/aUVmW https://web.archive.org/web/20131130081525/https://www.bitcoinassociation.ch/ |
https://www.uid.admin.ch/Detail.aspx?uid_id=CHE427008338 |
1.2) Blockchain Tools
| Linux Foundation Original | BSV Knockoff | |
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| Name | Hyperledger Fabric | Fabriik |
| Branding |  |
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| Website | hyperledger.org/use/fabric Code: https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric |
fabriik.com |
| @Hyperledger | @fabriik_market | |
| Archive (2021-07-18) | https://archive.is/Ig520 | https://archive.is/74FI5 |
| Established | 2016 | 2021 |
| Evidence of creation date | https://api.github.com/repos/hyperledger/fabric |
1.3) Capital Markets
Unbounded Capital is registered in California, but its website puts its business address in Texas, where Unchained Capital is domiciled.
| Bitcoin (BTC) Original | BSV Knockoff | |
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| Name | Unchained Capital | Unbounded Capital |
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| Location | Austin, Texas | Dallas, Texas |
| Website | unchained-capital.com | unboundedcapital.com |
| @unchainedcap | @unboundedcap | |
| Archive (2021-07-18) | Website: https://archive.is/1KrTc Twitter: https://archive.is/vGT8X |
Website: https://archive.is/DJOH0 Twitter: https://archive.is/LL2bl |
| Established | 2016 | 2017 (according to Bloomberg) 2019 (according to SEC) |
| Evidence of creation date | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001743578/000174357818000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml https://web.archive.org/web/20171204235840/https://www.unchained-capital.com/ |
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001814419/000181441920000001/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1819801/000181185120000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1768713D:US |
1.4) Mobile Trading App
TDXP is easily confusable for TDEX, especially since TDXP's branding does not use the ticker BSV to specify the difference in the underlying product. TDXP could easily be accessed by someone wishing to trade Bitcoin, but when the website is loaded it defaults to BSV trading.
| Bitcoin (BTC) Original | BSV Knockoff | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | TDEX | TDXP |
| Branding |  |
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| Website | tdex.network | tdxp.app |
| @tdexnetwork | @TDXPApp | |
| Archive (2021-07-23) | Website: https://archive.is/1bQ2F Twitter: https://archive.is/n4SlJ |
Website: https://archive.is/j4tzG Twitter: https://archive.is/NZaml |
| Established | 2020 September | 2020 November |
| Evidence of creation date | See Twitter account creation date. | See Twitter account creation date. |
| CoinTelegraph Article: https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockstreams-liquid-pushes-for-defi-with-new-decentralized-exchange Archive: https://archive.is/5woOj BTC Times Article: https://www.btctimes.com/news/the-exchange-attempting-to-bring-defi-to-bitcoin Archive: https://archive.is/ZqF0S |
CoinGeek Article: https://coingeek.com/tdxp-the-people-exchange/ Archive: https://archive.is/Zicdf |
1.5) Online Text Summariser
| Tridev Original | BSV Knockoff | |
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| Name | TLDRthis | TLDRThat! |
| Branding |  |
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| Website | tldrthis.com | tldrthat.com |
| @tldrthis | ||
| Archive (2021-07-23) | Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20200318234855/https://tldrthis.com/ Twitter: https://archive.is/D8XKy |
Website: https://archive.is/Noq3a |
| Established | 2020 | 2021 |
| Evidence of creation date | See Twitter account creation date and archive.org link. |
The creation of tldrthat.com was announced in this CoinGeek article, which has been archived here and here. To avoid creating clickthroughs to CoinGeek and therefore promoting tldrthat.com at the expense of tldrthis.com, please use the archival links. The article contains an explanation of the supposed "inspiration" for the concept, without making any reference at all to the almost identical product tldrthis.com that had been released a year earlier. |
1.6) Blockchain-Based Exchange with Assets in the Form of Tokens
Note that Craig Wright is one of the registered officers of this company: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12139817/officers
| Original | BSV Knockoff | |
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| Name | Tokenise International Ltd | Tokenized Ltd |
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| Location | Gibraltar | London |
| Website | tokenise.io | tokenized.com |
| @TokeniseLDN | @Tokenized_com | |
| Archive (2021-07-23) | Website: https://archive.is/9EXzX Twitter: https://archive.is/5CNkO |
Website: https://archive.is/RbMrP Twitter: https://archive.is/9VVbd |
| Established | 2018 March—Twitter account created 2018 September—company registered |
2018 November—whitepaper published 2019 August—company registered |
| Evidence of creation date | CoinGeek article giving whitepaper creation date. | |
| Company registration: https://www.datocapital.com.gi/companies/Tokenise-International-Ltd.html | Company registration: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12139817/filing-history |
Tokenized responded to this being pointed out to them on Social media. Here's a record of their response:
- Original: https://twitter.com/Tokenized_com/status/1418684689976500232
- Archive1: https://archive.is/8uS81
- Archive2: https://archive.is/Pouo5
1.7) Payments System
Since 2016 developers have been working on an instant layer-2 payments system for Bitcoin (BTC) called the "Lighting Network". A symbol that has obviously come to be associated with this is the emoji lightning bolt ⚡️. In 2021 a payment system was created on BSV called "PeerSend", which also inexplicably uses the lightning bolt emoji ⚡️. Given that BSV aims to scale on chain, it doesn't need a layer-2 payments system. BSV already has plenty of wallets to perform "payments", and PeerSend's own Twitter bio doesn't even put a PeerSend account up for its potential customers to use, but a Handcash account: demonstrating that there's already products in BSV doing precisely what it claims to do. There is no need for PeerSend to use the lightning emoji. Other aspects of PeerSend's branding are also similar to unofficial Twitter accounts that promote the Lightning Network. PeerSend appears to exist purely to confuse new entrants into the market and draw customers away from the Lightning Network to BSV.
| Bitcoin (BTC) Original | BSV Knockoff | |
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| Name | Lightning Network | PeerSend |
| Twitter Branding |   |
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| Website | Project homepage: lightning.network | peersend.com |
| The two example accounts above are @LNstats and @BTC_LN | @PeersendCom | |
| Archive (2022-04-05) |
@LNstats: https://archive.ph/D9Li2 |
https://archive.ph/04D88 |
| Established |
@LNstats: at least as far back as March 2018 |
2021 |
| Evidence of creation date |
@LNstats statistics since March 2018: @BTC_LN: use of lightning bolt emoji since January 2018: |
https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.peer_technologies_inc.e495d1173029875366dba465eeb947ff.html |
1.8) Internet Software Company
What's so bizarre about this is that there's absolutely no reason for NChain to have ripped off Netscape's branding. It's a very weird decision. Thanks to Dean Little for spotting this (archive)
| Original | BSV Knockoff | |
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| Name | Netscape | NChain |
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Branding info available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape |
Website with branding: https://nchain.com/ |
2) Idea Emulation
These are products or businesses in the BSV ecosystem that are remakes of other businesses or ideas already deployed. Sometimes they remix or reuse branding elements.
2.1) Social Media
Twetch increasingly implement ideas and features already implemented on Twitter. They have actively used Twitter's API and automation functions to create a self-migration tool using their bot @twetchdat. It is amazingly benevolent of Twitter that all the Twetch accounts were not banned with 24hrs of being created.
| Original | BSV Knockoff | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Twitter Twitch |
Twetch |
| Website | twitter.com twitch.tv |
twetch.app |
| @Twitter @Twitch |
@twetchapp |
2.2) Takeaway Food
| Bitcoin (BTC) Original | BSV Knockoff | |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Bitcoin Pizza | BSV Pizza |
| Website | eatbitcoinpizza.com/ | bsvpizza.com |
| @eatbitcoinpizza | @BSVPizza | |
| Established | 2021-02 | 2021-06 |